9. "I had been tempted of the adversary and sought the plates to obtain riches...Therefore, I was chastened" - the temptation of wealth and easy life. "On attempting to take possession of the record a shock was produced upon his system, by an invisible power which deprived him, in a measure, of his natural strength." Lucy Mack, Joseph Smith's mother said he was "hurled to the ground with great violence" as was Uzzah for steadying the ark. The implicated value of the Gold plates is construed as sacred by divine.[Learn More ...]

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